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Dude what do you want from me? You really think i'm going to give two shits about some one doing exactly what I said? Just proves how stupid and ignorant most of the human race is and it's becuase of retards like that the human race isn't a few hundred years more technologically advanced.

I have no sympathy for the unitelligent and if you knew me personally you would realise trying to insult my intelligence with that last comment is a foolish thing to do.

Ho ho ho!! Self proclaimed intellectual in the house.

Enough said now, thank you greatly.

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think laterally :P

huge torque, lots of power if dialed right, plenty of range. I don't see anything wrong with the idea myself. sure it would piss the purists off but from a fun and economy sense - I'd consider it.

2.5 or 3.0 TD out of a patrol/navara with the appropriate gearing - would suprise a few people. especially if it was auto and you could set the shift points appropriately.

follow?

horses for courses :)

kenworth t950 unladen would suprise quite a few people.

VW golf - yes to a point.

google performance diesels. you may find merit in this crazy idea.

think laterally :P

huge torque, lots of power if dialed right, plenty of range. I don't see anything wrong with the idea myself. sure it would piss the purists off but from a fun and economy sense - I'd consider it.

2.5 or 3.0 TD out of a patrol/navara with the appropriate gearing - would suprise a few people. especially if it was auto and you could set the shift points appropriately.

follow?

I did very carefully consider an rd28 conversion into my stagea... as there are adapter plates to fitt the front diff/sump available. But after driving a couple of patrols with an rd28... forget about it- they're an odd slug of a motor and I havn't found many people getting any kind of power/tourque out of them without HUGE amounts of lag.

I'm a huge fan of diesel engines and running around europe- that's pretty much all you do drive. Some of the diesel hatch backs really move, especially when tuned up a little. Plus diesel engines LOVE nitrous with propane.

To get any kind of real performance, you'd need either quite a large (heavy) engine with big boost numbers or a very late model engine from a merc or bmw etc... The mercs/beemers are running sleved alloy blocks, ceramic pistons etc to keep the weight and rotating mass down- nice and quiet too.

The other thing with most performance diesel power delivers is the masses of mid range torque... Honsetly it would be hard to get it all to the ground, unless your running some serious tyres and/or awd then it'll be something like:

Rattle-

Lag-

BooooOOOOSt-

Wheelspin-

Flat top end-

I guess if I was to do it, I would do somthing very similar to the Black Smoke Racing guys in finland. Late model 6cyl diesel from a late model merc (over 3lt) with the multi gear auto transmission (6-8 gears). I'd probably leave the bottomend fairly factory, tickle the head a little, run a variable vane performance turbo and the appropriate fueling modifications- I'd build the tranny up as tightly as possible and keep it tiptronic.

Pop it all in a Stag with leather and see how fast I can tow my GTR to the drag strip ha ha ha.

Cheers

Justin

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